Who Is The Arkham Knight?

Batman: Arkham Knight is the upcoming final installment of the Batman: Arkham series. Many things have been revealed and speculated about this game, but one thing that intrigues me the most, Rocksteady are working with DC to create an "original" character, The Arkham Knight, who is a more militarized Batman. Today, I will be listing my suspects. Also, I have decided, from now until Christmas I will add one suspect. Enjoy.

Ahh, Azreal, my favourite Batman character of all time. Anybody who doesn't know who he is, I'll sum it up.

Way back when in 1993, there was an arc of Batman comics known as Knightfall. In it, Bane (If you don't know who he is, he's the guy with green shizzle coarsing through his veins, NOT the guy with the mask) breaks Batman's back. So, The Caped Crusader called upon Azreal to take on the mantle. Azreal became Batman for a bit and even used these really cool fire blades, but anyway yeah.

So where does Azreal fit into the Arkham franchise, Jonezy? I hear you cry. Well shut up, I was getting to that. If you played Arkham City you may remember the side-mission Watcher In The Wings. If so, remember the guy in the red mask? That was Azreal. What he said to Batman was pretty cool too. "I bring a message. Dark days are coming, Batman. The prophecy is coming true. You are the warrior who will close the gates of hell. You are the one who will save this day and in doing so events will occur that you cannot stop. From the ashes of Arkham, the fires will rage and Gotham will burn. And you, you will burn too" BADASS ALERT.

8/12/14: Quincy Sharp

'if you remember in Arkham City Batman holds sharp over the side of a building
this leads me to believe that sharp wants to kill batman and rule Gotham as the new crime lord because it was found out that sharp killed several inmates at the asylum and sharp wasn't seen after arkham city so I believe that he is the arkham knight

9/12/14 The Joker
now a lot of you will call me crazy for this but here's a theory in Arkham City Joker died close to The Lazarus Pit so he could have been resurrected and trained in martial arts got the Arkham Knight Suit and wants to finally kill Batman and get Gotham back